Oct 21, 202626 minS1
<p>Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!</p><p>In March 2023, Australian lender Latitude Financial announced a cyber attack it first thought had touched...
About this Podcast:
Downtime tells the stories of real IT disasters: the outages, ransomware attacks, data breaches and fake invoices that stopped businesses in their tracks, and turns each one into plain-English lessons for Australian business owners. Every Tuesday, one incident, told as a story: what happened, why, and what would have prevented it. Every Thursday, the Downtime Brief: the week's IT and cyber security news that matters to a small or mid-sized Australian business. No jargon, no scare tactics, just what to do about it. Downtime is brought to you by Complete Uptime Solutions , managed IT and cyber security for Australian businesses. Get a free IT risk snapshot at completeuptimesolutions.com.au or call 02 8214 4612.
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What is Downtime: When IT Goes Wrong about?
Downtime tells the stories of real IT disasters: the outages, ransomware attacks, data breaches and fake invoices that stopped businesses in their tracks, and turns each one into plain-English lessons for Australian business owners. Every Tuesday, one incident, told as a story: what happened, why, and what would have prevented it.
What has Downtime: When IT Goes Wrong covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Latitude Financial: The 14 Million Records Nobody Needed Anymore" (21 October 2026, 26 minutes), "The OVHcloud Fire: When the Backup Was in the Same Building" (21 October 2026, 26 minutes), and "The Facebook Outage: Six Hours When Facebook Vanished from the Internet" (21 October 2026, 27 minutes).
How often does Downtime: When IT Goes Wrong publish?
Downtime: When IT Goes Wrong publishes roughly daily, with episodes averaging 24 minutes.
How hard is it to get booked on Downtime: When IT Goes Wrong?
Booking probability for Downtime: When IT Goes Wrong is 36%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Downtime: When IT Goes Wrong requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Downtime: When IT Goes Wrong's contact route on record: public web form.
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Oct 21, 202626 minS1<p>Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!</p><p>Just before 1 am on 10 March 2021, a fire broke out in a power room at OVHcloud's data centre campus in...
Oct 21, 202627 minS1<p>Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!</p><p>On 4 October 2021, a single command during routine maintenance cut Facebook off from its own data...
Oct 21, 202628 minS1<p>Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!</p><p>In April 2022 a routine clean-up script at Sydney-founded software giant Atlassian was handed the wrong...
Oct 21, 202620 minS1<p>Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!</p><p>In August 2019 a European subsidiary of Toyota Boshoku, a car components maker in the Toyota Group...
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Oct 21, 202624 minS1<p>Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!</p><p>On the Friday before the US Independence Day weekend in 2021, a criminal ransomware operation abused a...
Oct 21, 202621 minS1<p>Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!</p><p>In October 2022 a criminal walked into Medibank's network using one IT contractor's saved username and...
Oct 21, 202622 minS1<p>Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!</p><p>At about 4:05 in the morning on 8 November 2023, Optus's network fell over. For roughly 12 hours, around...
Oct 21, 202624 minS1<p>Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!</p><p>In June 2017 a poisoned update to a small Ukrainian accounting program unleashed NotPetya, a cyber weapon...
Oct 21, 202622 minS1<p>Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!</p><p>On Friday 19 July 2024, a routine content update from security company CrowdStrike crashed about 8.5...
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